Title

Glass, Raymond

Author

Butler, Roger.

Source

[Not applicable]

Publication date

2001

Type

Biography

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

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Raymond Glass

Raymond Glass was born February 12, 1921 at Duncan, Oklahoma, USA. His parents were both partly American Indian. Glass enrolled in the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Oklahoma, before the Second World War.

He served during the war with the US army working for the office of War Information at MacArthurs headquarters designing propaganda leaflets for distribution to the Pacific Islands. He married Rae (née) in Brisbane in 1944, their son Raymond was born in 1945, and he was discharged in the same year. He spent 1946 in Bedarra and Dunk Island before returning to Oklahoma where he re-enrolled in the university to complete his Fine Arts degree. In 1947 he left for Mexico where he studied at the Escuela des Belles Arts in San Miguel de Allende.

Returning to Australia in 1949 he exhibited at the David Jones Gallery in Sydney and later in Melbourne. He returned to the US in 1953 where he set up a small pottery studio. In 1956 he divorced his wife. An experimenter in the graphic arts, he produced lithographs and screenprints. The screenprints were produced at Mona Vale, NSW.

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